People have always waited for the End of the World. Seers, forecasters, magicians, prophets - they all painted gloomy scenarios of the future. But humanity has come to the threshold of the third millennium. What does the future of the world seem to him now?
Many ends of the world
Exciting people's imagination, the prediction according to the Mayan calendar of the end of the World in December 2012 is a thing of the past. Nothing has happened. Someone breathed a sigh of relief and again proceeded to make plans for the future. Nevertheless, according to statistics, hundreds of people died from the expectation of the 2012 apocalypse on the planet. And this despite the fact that humanity has already "survived" a hundred of such prophecies.
One can also recall the “second Millennium” on January 1, 2000, when the end of the World was tied to the “two zeros problem”, when the year 2000 was mixed up with 1900, and the chaos in the schedules of airplanes, trains and so on began. The approach of the planet Nibiru also ended in vain expectations. The launch of the Hadron Collider was associated with the appearance of a mini black hole, into which the whole Earth will gradually begin to draw in and scientists had to fight back to continue their research.
The question begs: why all this? Why do people raise the question of predicting the future? Curiosity is the nature of man. This is his movement into the future. But what it will be like does not depend on him. Therefore, it would be better to listen to what scientists think on this subject, at the disposal of which are the scientific achievements of both recent times and previous generations. Is it in vain, dare to ruin the familiar picture of the world, once led to the gallows or burned at the stake?
